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A woman whose ex-boyfriend was later killed by police says she is not celebrating his death, but is relieved officers acted quickly after she reported escalating abuse.

The police have since referred to the man as a home invasion suspect, who was fatally shot after aggressively coming at officers with a cutlass when they later visited his New Grant Home.

On Wednesday the woman spoke with our reporter Cindy Raghubar-Teekersingh who has this report.



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00:00he didn't have us to die like that but i have several reports not reports that voicemail messages videos that
00:09he telling me he is going to kill me like
00:11a relationship that began in march this year according to jillian riley a mother of three
00:17had enough unhappiness abuse and torture that she ended things in september but it only got worse
00:25she says her ex-boyfriend timian francois was often abusive to her and two saturdays ago was a breaking
00:32point this time when he came with a cutlash i just couldn't take it no more because
00:40he just doing it in front of them children this is not one time or two time or three time
00:44or four
00:45time he did it so i went to the station and i didn't run to the station i called the
00:51police because when
00:52i was talking to the police on the phone he was cussing me and i was running on the phone
00:57when he
00:57was cussing me so the police reached here very very very fast but when the police reached here he did
01:02have left already as the police gone he come back as the police gone again he come back she says
01:11after
01:11making an official report officers said they would go to francois home in new grand to talk to him
01:17the next thing she heard he was killed by police a statement from the ttps that day said on arrival
01:24at
01:25the home the suspect allegedly became aggressive ignored repeated commands to drop a cutlass he was
01:31wielding and advanced towards the officers who fearing for their lives discharged their firearms hitting the
01:39suspect riley says she is not happy francois was killed but she is pleased with the swift response
01:46by police officers in responding to her call for help many times we call the police and we um and
01:54we
01:54rescue right and the police doesn't respond but if the police didn't respond and i was on the different
02:02end of the situation the story will have talked differently so at the end of the day what does i
02:09say
02:10and i thank god that i'm alive i am not happy that he is dead she had this message for
02:16women in abusive
02:17relationships i just want the young ladies out there to know it's have a lot of narcissists out here
02:24just be like a dream man and there is not that so please speak down wisely i make a bad
02:34decision
02:34instead of course me my life cindy raguba tika singh tv6 news
02:40you